Telephone switch-hook.



:mQ 830,696. PATBNTED SEPT. 11, 1906.

J. A. WOTTON.

TELEPHONE SWITCH HOOK. APPLIUATiON FILED JUNE 17, 1906.

UNITED .sTATns PATENT OFFICE.

JAMEs A. WO TON, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA. ASSIGNOR o ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING AND EQUIPMENT O MPANY, A CORPORATION OF GEORGIA.

TELEPHONE SWITCH-HOOK- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 11. 1906.

Application filed June 17, 1905. Serial No 265.800.

T0 aZZ whom it mag concern} Be it known that I, JAMEs A. WOTTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone Switch- Hooks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in telephone-hooks; and the object of the invention is the production of a telephone-hook made ofa single piece of metal which may be stamped in the form described and split at the end for separation to provide means for receiving and supporting the usual receiver of a telephone.

The invention consists in certain constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1-is a perspective view of a blank stamped from a single piece of material for producing my improved telephone-hook. Fig. 2 is'a similar view, but showing one end of the blank split or cut; and Fig. 3 is a similar perspective view, but showing the split end of the blank spread to form the telephone-receiver support, the other end of the blank being drilled" and recessed to facilitate the mounting thereof on the apparatus of the telephone.

Telephone hooks heretofore used have been usually formed by casting the parts or by stamping them out of a number of pieces and welding or otherwise securing them together. Such hooks are more or less expensive and require certain grades of material and a considerable expenditure of time in forming the completed article.

By the present invention telephone-hooks may be more quickly formed and material may be employed for producing the same which is cheaper than the material necessary when the hooks are cast or made in other ways.

In forming a telephone-hook in accordance with the present invention a sheet of metal of the proper width and thickness is used, the said metal being preferably common brass of an inexpensive kind. Dies capable of producing the article having the necessary contour are employed in cutting the blank of the hook from the said sheet. The dies are formed to produce at a single stroke the blank of the hook having the proper contour and formed with an enlarged end portion 1, which is apertured, as at 2, for the sake of lightening the hook and giving the proper balance thereto. The block is then split, as at 3. This is preferably accomplished by sawing a slot or recess into the end of the blank, as illustrated in Fig. 2. The reduced ends thus formed by the splitting of the blank are spread apart, a suitable press being used for giving these separated ends the desired shape. The spread ends form an opening, as at 4, for receiving the end of the telephone-receiver, as usual. The end of the blank which is opposite to the split portion is preferably drilled at 5 and may be recessed, as at 6, for fitting into place in the telephone mechanism when the said hook is pivotally mounted therein. The end of the blank which projects to one side, as at 7, may have a contact-piece 8 inserted in an aperture formed therein, as shown in Fig. 3. The shaped and finished hook may then be nickellated or otherwise ornamented, as desired As the hooks are absolutely uniform in size and shape, the piercing, drilling, and other machine-work necessary can be done with ordinary machinery at a small cost compared with the cost of finishing hooks which are cast. In actual practice it is found that hooks may be produced in this manner from sheet material of an inexfpensive kind and without taking account '0 the value of the scrap material left from the said hooks and are'produced at a less cost than the rough castings of the hooks commonly in use. In fact, the hook can be completely made and finished for less than the bare foundry cost of the cast hooks.

It will be evident that the hook forming the subject-matter of the present invention is not only capable of being made in a simple and easy manner, but that the result is an inexpensive product which is at the same time equal, if not superior, to the hooks in common use of a cast type.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A telephone-hook, comprising a body portion struck from a single sheet of material and divided longitudinally for a portion of its length, the divided portions" being bent portion integral throughout and a hook porto form receiver-supporting ends. tion integral with the body portion the arms 2. A tele hone-hook, comprising a body of the hook portion being formed from parts portion stamped from an integral sheet 'of of the body portion divided longitudinally 15 5 material of a thickness equal to the thickand spread apart into the'hook shape.

ness of the body portion of the hook; said In testimony whereof I aflix my signature body portion being split longitudinally for a in presence of tWo Witnesses.

portion of its length atone end and the sepa- JAMES A; WOTTON. rated portions being bent to form a receiver Witnesses: 10 support. EDWARD R. AUSTIN,

3. A telephone-hook, comprising a body B. H. AUs'fIN. 

